2025-08-04
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For the text version of this and all our longreads go to theguardian.com longread the Shining My trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron by Emmanuel Carrer Translated by John Lambert Read by David Sibley one At the feet of Hans Egeder Nook,
the capital of Greenland,
is a small jumble of orange prefab buildings and low gray apartment blocks nestled on a stony outcrop on the edge of the ocean.
There are no trees, but there's a hill topped by the statue of Hans Egeder,
the Danish Norwegian missionary who evangelised the world's biggest island in the 18th century and which as such is threatened with removal by Inuit anti colonialists.
It was at his feet that I awaited the helicopters bringing back the Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens Friedrich Nielsen,
the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen,
and the French President Emmanuel Macron, referred to throughout this trip as pr,
short for President de la Republique, from their excursion on the ice.